Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Artistic swimming at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Paris Aquatic Centre
Dates	5–10 August 2024
No. of events	2 (1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	96 from 18 nations
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Artistic swimming (formerly called synchronized swimming) competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France are scheduled to run between 5 and 10 August at the Paris Aquatic Centre. For the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the competition featured fewer than 100 athletes, with a total of 96 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the mixed team.

Several significant changes were instituted in the artistic swimming program for Paris 2024 to reinforce the Games-wide effort to achieve gender equality and vast diversity among the nations in the qualifying process. On 7 October 2022, World Aquatics (then FINA) favored nearly 99 percent of the votes to amend the artistic swimming rules between 2022 and 2025, such as the composition of an eight-member mixed team (previously a women's team event) with a maximum number of two males in the team. However, no men were selected to compete.

This will also be the first time since 2000 that a team other than Russia will win the gold in either discipline as Russia is currently banned from the Olympics due to Russia and Belarus' invasion of Ukraine.

Qualification

For the team event, the highest-ranked NOC in each of the five continental meets, except for the host nation France (representing Europe), obtained a quota place, while the remaining NOCs competed for the five available spots at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. For the duet, the highest-ranked NOC from each of the five continental meets that did not have a qualified team received a spot, with the remaining NOCs competed for the three remaining spots through the 2024 Worlds. All ten NOCs eligible to compete in the team event were required to select two members to form a duet.

Qualification summary

Nation	Team	Duet	Athletes
Australia			8
Austria	N/A		2
Canada			8
China			8
Egypt			8
France			8
Great Britain	N/A		2
Greece	N/A		2
Italy			8
Israel	N/A		2
Japan			8
South Korea	N/A		2
Mexico			8
Netherlands	N/A		2
New Zealand	N/A		2
Spain			8
Ukraine	N/A		2
United States			8
Total: 18 NOCs	80	16	96

Participating nations

Competition schedule

Competition on August 6th was opened by Bill May.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
4	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 NOCs)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Duet details	China Wang Qianyi Wang Liuyi	Great Britain Kate Shortman Isabelle Thorpe	Netherlands Bregje de Brouwer Noortje de Brouwer
Team details	China Chang Hao Cheng Wentao Feng Yu Wang Ciyue Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi Xiang Binxuan Xiao Yanning Zhang Yayi	United States Anita Alvarez Jaime Czarkowski Megumi Field Keana Hunter Audrey Kwon Calista Liu Jacklyn Luu Daniella Ramirez Ruby Remati	Spain Txell Ferré Marina García Polo Lilou Lluís Valette Meritxell Mas Alisa Ozhogina Paula Ramírez Sara Saldaña Iris Tió Blanca Toledano

See also

• Artistic swimming at the 2022 Asian Games
• Artistic swimming at the 2023 European Games
• Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games